Method of making head-linings for barrels.



No.-846,885. PATENTED MAR. 12, 1907.

; L. Y. WILLIAMS.

METHOD OFMAKING HEAD LININGS FOR BARRELS. APPLIOATIOII FILED AUG.29,1906.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

'rHz NORRIS PETER; co. WASHINGTON, D. c.

PATBNTED MAR. 12, 1907.

L. WILLIAMS.

METHOD OF MAKING HEAD LININGS FOR BARRELS.

APPLICATION I'ILED AUG. 29, 1 906.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

cm, WASHINGTON, D c.

NI'IE STATES ATENT OFFICE.

METHOD OF MAKING HEAD-LININGS FOR BARRELS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

.Eatented March 12, 1907.

A li ti fil d August 29, 1906. Serial No. 832,480.

.0 to whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LAoEY Y. W'ILLIAMs, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Toledo, in the county of Lucasand State of 5 Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in theArt of Manufacturing 1 l-lead-Linings for Barrels, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to head-linings for barrels, and specifically tothe art of making the same, the object being the devising of a method orprocess of manufacture by which the linings may easily and cheaply beproduced and at the same time have the requisite shape or configurationto frictionally engalge and match the head and chime of a barre Theinvention consists substantially the art or process hereinafter setforth and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an edge view of asingle head-lining made by my improved method of manu facture. Fig. 2 isa plan view. Fig. 3 is an isometric or perspective view. Fig. 4 is across-section or end view. Fig. 5 shows a series of thin boards orsheets of material which are to be fashioned into head-linings. Fig. 6is a perspective view of an apparatus which, for example, may beemployed in performing part of the process.

The apparatus (shown by Fig. 6) consists of a bed or table 1, having aconcave top surface 2, provided with a guiding-flange 3 along one edge;rear legs 4, upon which one end of the table is supported; legs 5, uponwhich the front end of the table is supported, the front legs beingshorter than the rear legs, so that the table or bed will occupy aninclined position; a presser-foot 6, pivoted at one end to a casting 7,secured to the table or to one of the front legs, said presser-foothaving a convex surface 8 and an arm 9, as shown; a pedal 10, pivoted at11 to one of the legs and pivotally connected at the point 12 by a rod13 to the arm 9 of the presser-foot through the medium of a journal 14,so the movement of the pedal will transmit a similar reciprocatingmovement to the presser-foot; a spring 15, which serves to hold thepedal and presser-foot in normally raised positions, and a reciprocatingknife 16, pivoted to the casting 7 in front of the resser-foot, asshown. This specific apparatus is illustrated as one of the severalmeans which may be employed in taking part I of the steps of theprocess, and other and difl ferent means may be selected or devised forthe purpose when so desired.

The art of manufacture is as follows: First a wooden block of suitabletimber cut to the desired shape is steamed or soaked in water; jsecondly, the said block is fashioned into 3 thin sheets or boards bymeans of a saw or reciprocating knife or cutter operated longitudinallyof the grain of the wood; thirdly, the thin sheets may be passed betweenrollers or otherwise and bent to a concavo-convex shape crosswise of thegrain of the wood fourthly, the bent sheets may be placed in a formertill set or dried sufficiently to maintain their concavo-convex shape;fifthly, the sheets of wood, preferably in layers, are placed upon theconcave surface of the bed or table 1 of the apparatus, (shown by Fig.6,) the edges projected a suitable distance beyond the edge of the lowerend of the table, the presser-foot forced down upon the sheets so as tohold them firmly, and the projecting edges clipped off or severed fromthe main bodies of the strips by the reciprocating knife. The sheets ofwood are repeatedly and intermittently fed and cut longitudinally of thegrain, and the severed strips are of the shape shown by Figs. 1 to 4 ofthe drawings-that is, each strip has a beveled convex top edge 19, and aconcave beveled lower edge 20, the latter edge being adapted to fit thehead of a barrel and the convex surface 17 to fit the chine of thestaves of the barrel. To secure the desired shape of the head-lining,and particularly the concave beveled lower edge 20 in connection withthe convex surface 17, the concavo-con vex thin sheets of wood are fedto the knife at an angle oblique to the plane in which the knifereciprocates.

WVhile I have set forth in detail one complete mode of carrying out theart of manufacture, I do not thereby restrict the scope of my inventionto the specific details or specific order of procedure.

The essential steps are the cutting of the wood into thin sheets, thebending of them to a concavo-convex shape or shapes, and feeding them toa severing means in a plane oblique to the plane of the path of suchsevering means or otherwise cutting them on a plane which is oblique tothe curved surface of the sheet or sheets.

convex surface 17, a concave surface 18, a

What I claim is 1. The method of forming curved beveledged linings,which consists in cutting strips from a curved sheet of wood on a planeoblique t0 the curved surface of the sheet and lengthwise of the curve.

2. The art of makinghead-linings consisting in fashioning a sheet orsheets of suitable material to a concavo-convex shape or shapes andsevering therefrom strips, the plane of severance being oblique to thecurved surface or surfaces ofthe sheet or sheets and lengthwise of thecurve.

3. The art of forming curved bevel-edged linings, which consists incutting strips from a concavo-convex sheet of wood on a plane I at anangle to the curved surface of the sheet,

lengthwise of the curve, and substantially parallel with the grain.

I 4. The art of making head-linings con- 20 sisting in cutting a blockof wood I sheets, said cutting being parallel with the into thin grainof the wood, fashioning the sheets to a concavo-convex shape, andcutting the same into strips, the plane of severance being oblique tothe curved surfaces of the sheets lengthwise 0f the curve, andsubstantially in line with the grain of the wood.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LACEY Y. WILLIAMS. Witnesses:

JoI-INsoN THURSTON, MAY P. FosTER'.

